iRecord is a free-to-use online training platform operated by the Biological Records Centre and is used by many biological recorders. It is designed with the network of National Recording Schemes & Societies and County Recorders in mind, giving them control of record verification and granting them access to their data for their focus species group. Local Environmental Record Centres can also access this data.
Over the last year, the Biological Recording Company partnered with the National Forum for Biological Recording and Biological Records Centre to put together a programme of talks that showcase how some organisations are using, and improving, iRecord to gather biodiversity data. All of the presentations were recorded and can now be viewed by anyone on the Biological Recording Company’s YouTube channel.
The seminars are:
- How iRecord Helps a Local Wildlife Group with John Lindley (South Stoke Wildlife Group)
- Ten Years of Talking to People About iRecord: A County Perspective on Online Recording with Clare Blencowe (Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre)
- Shifting Ground: The Ground Beetle Recording Scheme on iRecord with Chris Foster (Ground Beetle Recording Scheme)
- Supporting Science: A New Collaborative Approach to Supporting Verification with Rachael Conway (Butterfly Conservation)
- Biological Records Centre: Supporting iRecord into the Future with Martin Harvey (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology)
You can read more about recording wildlife and the various platforms available, including iRecord, in our article “Record wildlife – a fun way to help nature”.